You are in a room with a stranger who's been wireheaded (hooked up to device that induced constant bliss and satisfaction) not by their choice. If you press the button, you pull them out back to reality. If you do, they can't go back in. Do you press the button?
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By definition, the rest of their life is going to suck if you pull them out (even if they escape addiction). So their life is fucked. The ? is whether they can bring offsetting positive change to the world. Did they learn anything? Dunno. But that's the ? we need to answer here.
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Put an unloaded gun on the table in front of them. Keep a loaded gun behind you. Tell them you trust them to make the right decision. If they try to use it, kill them.
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'u are in a room with a digital heroin addict. do u cure their addiction permanently'
how are people getting this so wrong lmao
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does "not by their choice" mean that they expressed no preference, or does it mean that they declined it but it was done to them against their wishes? seems like a big difference.
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